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Letter to Anna

  • Director(s):
    Eric Bergkraut
    Producer(s):
    • Switzerland
    • 83 min
    • Digital Betacam PAL
    • Russian (subtitles in English)

Anna Politkovskaya knew she was living a dangerous life. One of Vladimir Putin's most vocal critics, she dedicated her working life to giving a voice to the voiceless, most notably her reporting on the brutual oppression of the Chechyan people. Her murder in October, 2006 sent shockwaves through the world. In this poignant documentary, Erik Bergkraut weaves together footage taken during a recent film he made featuring Politkovskaya, and interviews since her death with her family and colleagues to try to understand the combativeness and compassion that made her one of journalism's greatest heroes. En route to Beslan to mediate in the 2004 school hostage crisis, she was poisoned and left in a coma. Undaunted she carried on her mission to bring the plight of the Chechyans to the world at large. It's both chilling and moving to see Politkovskaya, in the wake of three of her colleagues' untimely deaths, discuss living on borrowed time, knowing now the violent fate which did indeed await her.

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Credits

Cinematographer:
Laurent Stoop 
Editor:
Vendula Roudnicka 
Music:
 
Writer:
 
co-Author:
Thérèse Obrecht Hodler 

Director Filmography

  • 2007 - THE SORCER FROM ENTLEBUCH 2006 - AGOTA, NEUF ANS PLUS TARD – AGOTA, NINE YEARS LATER 2005 - COCA, THE DOVE FROM CHECHNYA 2003 - THE FLYING ABBOT 1997 - KONTINENT K. – CONTINENT K

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Patricia Hickey Head of Sales MercuryMedia - London patricia(at)mercurymedia.org 44 (0) 207 221 7221

Screening

06 Nov 15:45

Showroom 2
(110 Seats)

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07 Nov 17:35

Showroom 2
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